Massive Entertainment have turned up the trailer of the year so far: perfect for the voyeur of utter destruction who wants to chill out while surveying the impact craters. It’s hard to say what makes the correct juxtaposition of music with explosions so palatable, but I’d say this was the most entertaining since that Far Cry 2 trailer last year. Good work, Ubi. World In Conflict: Soviet Assault is out later this month, so I guess I should install this preview code that is lingering next to my keyboard.

Note about pricing:
The price is bound to differ from retailer to retailer. Please note that this is the price set by the publisher and the individual retailers set their final price. For a concrete example you can check Game in the UK. They have “World in Conflict Complete” listed on their website for £17.99 (roughly 20 Euros).

World in Conflict Complete will be shipped on one single DVD disc.

Both World in Conflict Complete and the Soviet Assault standalone mission pack will be available through digital download as well as on STEAM.

Note about STEAM versions:
The Steam versions are a bit different from standard boxed retail versions, so a Soviet Assault expansion downloaded from Steam won’t run with a store version of WIC. Same thing the other way around, a Steam WIC version won’t run with a store version of Soviet Assault. World in Conflict Complete will be available in the US, EU and other regions. The standalone Soviet Assault mission pack will only be available for North and South American users.

I’m going back through and catching up on all the RTSs I missed in the last couple of years.
So how does WIC compare? I could read up on reviews, but I’d rather take an RPS straw poll.
How would you describe the SP and MP gameplay for someone familiar with RTSs, including things like Codename:Panzers (stupid name, fun game before CoH)?

Looks awesome! especially the high res one on Feet linked to. One thing I noticed though on it, they have all this fantastic explodey physics going on, but when you see that attack helicopter get hit by some missiles of some kind, it was pathetic, not a single scratch on it till it hit the ground. Come on folks, lets see some debris flying off that wounded bird!

Ah. great trailer. I love the combination of slow music and violence.
I mean: every time I hear A Kiss to Build a Dream On I think about nuclear bombs and children being slaughter with miniguns.
So beautiful.